World Heritage Watch

Welcome to World Heritage Watch

With our network of over 250 civil society actors and indigenous peoples’ organizations worldwide, World Heritage Watch ensures that the world heritage is not sacrificed to political compromises and economic interests. We support UNESCO in getting complete and correct information about the situation of the sites. And we help local people to protect their sites and to have an appropriate benefit from them.

WHW Report 2026

World Heritage Watch Report released

open Report

Call for Papers

14th International NGO Forum on World Heritage

Open Letter to UNESCO

on Saint Catherine Monastery

WHW Midsummer Party

FridayY, 27 June 2025
Event Hall and Court of the Nicolai House, Brüderstr. 13, 10178 Berlin

Press Release

Reverse the Expropriation of St. Catherine’s Monastery
Stop Tourist Megaprojects on Mount Sinai

Press Release

Mount Sinai: A Sacred Landscape Disfigured by a Megatourism Project

to support UNESCO in protecting and safeguarding World Heritage properties;
to strengthen the role of civil society and indigenous peoples under the UNESCO World Heritage Convention;
to foster public awareness, information and education about, and to create a stronger identification with, the World Heritage;
to strengthen the implementation regime of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention;

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What you can do

Send us reports and photos about your observations and of any plans or activities which could negatively affect World Heritage Sites.
Start a local group in your community to monitor the World Heritage Site(s) in your commune, municipality, region or country.
Educate yourself and others about your World Heritage Site(s) and its management.
Alert the media, and post messages on social media, about your activities.
Support our work with a regular donation.

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Make a Donation – It Is Your Heritage!

World Heritage Watch must remain an independent organization. Without your support we cannot do our work for the heritage of all of us.

Mount Sinai: A Sacred Landscape Disfigured by a Megatourism Project

Welcome to World Heritage Watch

WHW Report 2026

Call for Papers

Open Letter to UNESCO

WHW Midsummer Party

Press Release

Press Release

Our objectives are

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